Trapped theatergoers held overnight at Holdovers screening
In an ironic twist, theatergoers at a late-night Holdovers screening were forgotten by theater employees and held against their will
The Holdovers is 2023’s comfiest movie. Who wouldn’t want to spend the yuletide with a cup of cocoa and Paul Giamatti at a beautiful New England boarding school carved from mahogany and blanketed with soft, white snow? There’s nothing like getting wrapped inside The Holdovers—as long as you’re the one doing the wrapping.
However, patrons of the Net Station cinema in Rio de Janeiro became holdovers themselves at a recent late-night screening of Alexander Payne’s Oscar-nominee, presumably as a consequence of failing to comprehend the Peloponnesian War. Apparently, the theater forgot about the some 40-odd people watching this comedy about a trio of forgotten lonely souls learning to spend their time in captivity together. As Cicero once said, “Non nobis solum nati sumus.”
An Instagram video from the scene shows the understandably frustrated holdovers behind the theater gates, calling to people outside on the street as they waited for someone’s pushover father to forget about their dumb haircut and rescue them in their helicopter. Firefighters were the rich daddies in the case, freeing these forgotten patrons locked inside what we can only describe as hell for them and heaven for the freaks who read The A.V. Club.